Preparing your Paper for CaGIS
Process, R&R, Graphs and Illustrations
Eric Delmelle, Nick Bearman
2024-06-01
Workshop Objectives
- Learn about the journal
- Timeline for review, acceptance rate
- Prepare your manuscript
- research (new methodology)
- review
- essay (vision)
- Contributions & grounded research
- High-quality visuals
Overview of the CaGIS Journal
- Official publication of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society
- [‘…Society supports research, education, and practices that improve the understanding, creation, analysis, and use of maps and geographic information…’]
- [‘…journal implements the objectives of the Society…’]
- articles –> innovative research in cartography and geographic information science.
History
- 1974 : 1990: The American Cartographer
- 1990 : 1999: Cartography and Geographic Information Systems
- 1999 : now: Cartography and Geographic Information Science
- 6 issues per year, ~6-8 articles per issue: ~40 articles/year
Some statistics
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Impact factor since 2015
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Number of downloads since 2015
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Geography of downloads since 2015
Editorial board
Type of papers
- research (most common)
- review
- essay/vision
The structure of your paper (research)
- Title/abstract/keywords
- Introduction: introduce the problem and motivate your paper
- why do we need this type of research
- contributions to existing work in the journal or nearby outlets
- A well explained methodology, with testable hypothesis
- If new method (e.g. color scheme, symbol size), conduct surveys with subjects
- Discuss your results (have stakeholders been involved?) -future research
Testing with participants
- Typically in the US, needs to go through IRB
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A study on the aptitude of color hue, value, and transparency for geographic relevance encoding in mobile maps.CaGIS 2023
The structure of your paper (review)
- Title/abstract/keywords
- Introduction: introduce the problem and motivate your paper
- why do we need this review?
- is the field moving quickly?
- is it part of a Ph.D. student first chapter?
- How is the review conducted? PubMed, Google Search?
- If new method (e.g. color scheme, symbol size), conduct surveys with subjects
- Discuss your results (have stakeholders been involved?)
- future research
The structure of your paper (review)
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Example of a literature review/essay
Lines between essays and reviews can be blurry.
- Essays will generally be given to ‘senior’ reviewers who have a solid and wide understanding of the field
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documenting literature query
The structure of your paper (essay)
- Title/abstract/keywords
- Introduction: introduce the problem and motivate the rationale behind the essay
- You will need some lit. review to ground your research
- Approach could be:
- Analytical and Reflective on different perspectives, theories
- Argumentative: present or defend a particular argument or viewpoint
- Critical Evaluation: evaluate existing knowledge, identifying gaps, inconsistencies, or areas needing further research.
- Theoretical Focus: exploring conceptual frameworks and their implications.
- Directions for research
Authors order is important
- Generally, the individual who conducted the majority of the work, should be first.
- However, in some domains (public health) the adviser goes last.
- Sandwich authors when contribution is limited
- Author for correspondance
How do we make our research reproducible? - FAIR:
Findable - Descriptive metadata and persistent identifier (DOI)
Accessible - Code/data could be openly available OR access via authentication and if needed
Interoperable - Data needs to be integrated with other data and interoperate with applications or workflows (Open formats)
Reusable - Documentation and license (Open license - e.g. Creative Commons)
R&R (again)
Codes!
- Some journals & conferences ask you to submit code along with your paper
- Anyone (with a similar level of skills) should be able to do reproduce your research and benefit from it.
- If you do analysis in ArcGIS Pro, you need ArcGIS Pro to recreate that analysis
- If you don’t have ArcGIS Pro, what do you do?
Preparing flowcharts (\(\frac{1}{3}\))
- Importance of replicability; a flowchart can really help.
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documenting data collection wrangling
Preparing flowcharts (\(\frac{2}{3}\))
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replicable research
Preparing flowcharts (\(\frac{3}{3}\))
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technical flowchart
Preparing maps (\(\frac{1}{2}\))
- Figures should be in TIFF or EPS format.
- Formats such as GIF, JPEG, PDF are not acceptable
- Images produced in or embedded in PowerPoint / Word not acceptable
- Resolution must be 600 dpi.
Preparing maps (\(\frac{2}{2}\))
- Multipart figures should be labelled a), b), c), etc. These should all be included in one image file
- Do not embed captions within the figure, include these at the end of the manuscript
- When exporting to EPS or TIFF, all fonts should be embedded.
- Myriad Pro (sans serif) font is used for figure captions.
- All figures can be color (there is no additional charge for color).
- Tables also must be removed from the main text manuscript and saved as a separate file.
Example (how to improve?) (\(\frac{2}{2}\))
Maps - example of effective design (\(\frac{1}{3}\))
Maps - example of effective design (\(\frac{2}{3}\))
Maps - example of effective design (\(\frac{3}{3}\))
Graphs: Simplify!
- Franconeri, Steven L., et al. “The science of visual data communication: What works.” Psychological Science in the public interest 22.3 (2021): 110-161.
Graphs: What do you want the reader to focus on?
Graphs: Scale axis
- Message will be different depending on:
- how you present your data
- your audience
knitr::include_graphics(“imgs/effectiveGraphB.png”)